ACT - American College Testing's
Examination - an evaluation test for undergraduate admission to colleges
and universities in the U.S., equivalent to the SAT (exame de avaliação
para cursos de graduação em universidades norte-americanas,
equivalente ao SAT).

ALM - Audio-Lingual Method
- a widely used language teaching approach popular in the 50s and 60s based
structuralism and behaviorism. Classroom activities are primarily rote
memorization and habit formation.

BALEAP - British
Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes

BASCELT - the British Associaton of State Colleges
in EFL Teaching represents state-owned EFL institutions in the U.K.

BATQI - British Association of TESOL Qualifying Institutions,
a voluntary non profit association of UK educational institutions which offer
courses leading to ESL/EFL teaching qualifications. Provides information to those
seeking routes to becoming qualified TESOL professionals, maintains a code of
practice for institutions offering TESOL programs and publishes a register of
TESOL courses. Membership includes institutions offering courses ranging from
short courses to PhD's. Fifteen non-teaching organizations with an interest in
teacher qualifications are currently represented on the BATQI Advisory Council
(ARELS, BAAL, BALEAP, the British Council, Accreditation Unit, CfBT, the College
of Preceptors, the English Speaking Union; IATEFL, IELTDHE, NATECLA, RSA Examinations
Board, SATEFL, Trinity College London, and UCLES).

BEC
- Business English Certificate - a set of three examinations by
the University of Cambridge - BEC Preliminary, BEC Vantage, BEC Higher - designed
to test English language ability used in the context of business.

CAMBRIDGE EXAMS - Examinations
of English proficiency leading to certificates of proficiency, popular
in the U.K., Europe, the Middle East, and other areas.

CaMLA - Cambridge-Michigan Language Assessments.
A not-for-profit collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Cambridge, two institutions in the field of language assessment, teaching, and research.

CAN - Communicative Acquisitionist Naturalistic.
A theory of language instruction based on a group of mutually supportive
theories

CCSE -
Certificates in Communicative Skills in English. CCSE test the ability of candidates
to use English communicatively in the four skills: reading, writing, listening
and speaking. Each of the skills is assessed separately and can be entered
for at any of four levels – Levels 1, 2, 3 and 4. Level 1 corresponds approximately to PET, Level 2 to a grade C/D in FCE, Level 3 approximates to the level of CAE and Level 4 to a grade B/C of CPE.

CEELT
- Cambridge Examination in English for Language Teachers. Tests the English
competency of non-native teachers of English.

CEF - Common European Framework (of Reference for Languages). Same as CEFR.

CEFR - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The CEFR provides a basis for the mutual recognition of language qualifications, thus facilitating educational and occupational mobility. It also helps to standardize the levels of English proficiency tests.

CEIBT- Certificate in English for International Business and
Trade. Tests for high level English competency for the workplace.

CELT - Comprehensive English Language Test

CELTA-
Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (Cambridge/RSA
Teaching Certificate, formerly known as C-TEFLA)

CELTYL- Certificate in English Language Teaching to Young Learners
in Language Schools

CNN -
Cable News Network - the 24-hour US TV news service with world coverage,
based in Atlanta, Georgia.

COTE
- Certificate for Overseas Teachers of English
- one of the certificate programs for teachers from the University of Cambridge.
It was designed for non-native speakers of English and has been raplaced
by the ICELT in 2005.

CPE
- Certificate of Proficiency in English - the fifth and the most advanced of
Cambridge's series of exams (roughly comparable to a score of 600-650 on the TOEFL).
The CPE is the exam which many British universities request of foreign students.
O mais avançado dos 5 exames de avaliação de proficiência
em inglês do sistema da Universidade de Cambridge, Inglaterra.

C-TEFLA
- Certificate of Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults (Cambridge University).

DAT - Dental Admission Testing

DC - District of Columbia

DELTA
- Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults (Cambridge/RSA Language Teaching
Scheme, to replace the D-TEFLA in September 1998)

DOTE - Diploma for Overseas Teachers of English - one of the teaching
awards by the University of Cambridge for teachers who are non-native speakers
of English. It was designed for non-native speakers of English and has been raplaced
by the DELTA and the IDLTM in 2005.

D-TEFLA
- Diploma of Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults (University of
Cambridge).

EAD - English as an Academic Discourse - acronym used by Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey. Refers to college courses designed to assist students
who have difficulty reading, writing, or speaking English for
academic purposes.

EAL - English as an Additional Language

EAP - English for Academic Purposes

EBE - English for Business and Economics

ECCE - Exam for the Certificate of Competency in English
(Michigan University) - targeted at a lower level

ECPE-
Exam for the Certificate of Proficiency in English (Michigan University) -
targeted at a higher level.

EEP - English for Employment Purposes

EFL - English as a Foreign Language

EGP - English for General Purposes

EIL - English as an International Language

ELICOS -
English Language Intensive Courses to Overseas Students. The ELICOS Association
is the national professional association of accredited and government registered
centres teaching English to overseas students in Australia.

FCE
- First Certificate in English - the third of Cambridge's series of exams
(roughly comparable to a score of 500 on the TOEFL and 5.7 on the IELTS).

FELCRO - Federation of English
Language Course Organizations (Established in 1972). An inspecting body
for EFL/ESL/ESOL schools in the U.K. FELCRO merged with ARESL in
the 1980s.

FFS - Family Financial Statement

FLES - Foreign Language in Elementary School

GED - General Educational Development Test. A high school
equivalency exam of the American Council on Education's
(ACE) Center for Adult Learning and Educational Credentials. Exame equivalente
ao supletivo no Brasil.

GRE
- Graduate Record Examination - an evaluation test for graduate
admission to colleges and universities in the U.S. (exame de avaliação
de conhecimentos para admissão a cursos de pós-graduação
em universidades norte-americanas).

G-TELP - General Tests of English Language Proficiency.
A test developed in the U.S. at the San Diego State University, by the International Testing Services Center. It has been
administered as an English language proficiency test predominantly in countries such as China, Korea and Mexico. O G-TELP é um
exame de avaliação de proficiência em inglês semelhante ao TOEFL e ministrado pela Universidade Estadual
de San Diego.

IDI -
Intercultural Development Inventory. A paper-based, 50-item test to measure how a person or a group of people tend to
think and feel about cultural difference.

IDLTM -
International Diploma in Language Teaching Management. The most advanced of the of
the University of Cambridge ESOL teaching awards.

IDP -
International Development Programme (for Australian Universities and Colleges).
IDP Education Australia is a not-for-profit company owned by Australia's
Universities and key recruiter of international students to Australia.

MLA - Modern Language Association
of America - The major professional organization of US college and university
teachers of English and modern languages. Publisher of the MLA Handbook
for Writers of Research Papers.

MT - Machine Translation. Tradução
via software de computador.

MT - Mother Tongue - O mesmo que L1

MTELP - Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency

NAFSA - Association of International Educators.
Promotes the exchange of students and scholars to and from the United States)

NATECLA - National Association
for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults (UK)

NATESOL - National Association of Teachers of English
for Speakers of Other Languages

NCTE - National Council of Teachers of English

NCVQ - National Council for Vocational Qualifications

NEAS - National ELICOS Accreditation
Scheme, an Australian organization.

OET - Occupational
English Test - an Australian language test for overseas qualified medical and
health professionals seeking admittance to training programs or
in order to practice their profession in Australia and whose first language
is not English.

OPI - Oral Proficiency Interview (by the American Council on the Teaching
of Foreign Languages)

RELTA- RMIT English Language Test for Aviation
- An association of 18 EFL schools in England.

RP - Received Pronunciation
- refers to a variety of British English dialects representing the accent
of educated BrE, and popularly known as the King's English, the Queen's
English, BBC English, Oxford English, and Public School English.

RPG - Role Playing Games

RSA - Royal Society of Arts
(also RSA Examinations Board); UK

RSA/Cambridge C-TEFLA - Certificate
of Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults. A professional
qualification for prospective EFL teachers.

RSA/Cambridge D-TEFLA - Diploma
of Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Advanced qualification for EFL
teachers who have already completed the C-TEFLA.

SATEFL - Scottish Association of Teachers of English
as a Foreign Language

SCT - Sociocultural Theory
- a theory of human development based on Vygotsky's
work.

SEVIS - Student and Exchange Visitor Information System -
the new system developed by the U.S. Government to keep track
of all exchange visitors (J visas) and international foreign
students (F & M visas) during their stay in the United States. SEVIS replaced
an old manual, paper-driven procedure and is now
automated in real time; accurate information is updated and maintained through
the use of a web-based application. SEVIS has
enabled schools and exchange program sponsors to transmit electronic information
and event notifications, via the internet, to the
Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of State.

TKT- Teaching Knowledge Test, a new test
about teaching English to speakers of other languages by the University of Cambridge that corresponds to very basic
skills. There are no formal entry requirements. However, anyone wishing to take TKT is strongly advised to have at least
an intermediate level of English. Mais um dos muitos exames da Cambridge University. É o menos
avançado de uma nova geração de exames que conferem um certificado
para ensino de inglês, voltado a professores de escolas primárias e secundárias em países onde pouco se fala inglês.

TOEFL - Test of English as
a Foreign Language. Test to measure English skills of prospective entrants to
most U.S.and Canadian universities, and also accepted by several British universities.
(Exame que avalia o desempenho em inglês de estrangeiros que pretendem estudar
em universidades norte-americanas ou canadenses. Também aceito por várias universidades
britânicas).

TOEIC-
The TOEIC (pronounced "toe-ick") is a Test of English for International
Communication. It is broken down into two halves: reading and listening
comprehension. Employees of international businesses, recruits and business
students might take the test, as it is primarily used for recruitment,
evaluation purposes. The TOEIC is not a test for admission to universities
for students that are not native to the host country (as are the TOEFL,
the IELTS and the CPE). College students, graduates and business people
may take the TOEIC in their home countries for all sorts of reasons except
academic administration. (The TOEIC seems to be most popular in Japan)

TOLES - Test of Legal English Skills. Examination for lawyers, law students and interns to prove their ability to cope with everyday practical tasks in English.

TOT - (tip-of-the-tongue) refers to the difficulty
of not having the right word come readily to mind.